Learning Goals

Make observations of aerial photos and identify natural features and anthropogenic landscape alterations.

Make lacustrine core observations and create a core description.

Have a basic understanding of the chemical, biological, and geological processes that occur in lakes.

Develop an understanding of temporal changes in the landscape.

Correlate landscape-level observations with lacustrine core data.

Description

The instructor:

Provides readings or a lecture on interpreting aerial photos.

Provides guidance in interpreting the processes that underlie the features that are observed within a lake core.

Provides comparative historical geographic data on land use, population changes, and urban development.

Provides
aerial photos or topographic maps from at least two times frames of a
lake region that has been heavily impacted by anthropogenic forces.
Images must be of a lake for which you have a modern core sample that
will be used for the exercise.

Provides a large print out of a modern core sample image (these can be retrieved from LacCore or Coreref) for group analysis work

Provides an interpretation using the data and materials to develop a story
linking the anthropogenic changes seen on the surface to features of the
core.

Students:

Compare aerial photos and/or topographic maps from different time frames.

Study photos or maps and identify the various natural and
anthropogenic features that can be seen.

Determine the
various landscape changes that have happened over time and discuss their
potential impacts on the larger landscape and lake.

Study and describe features in the core and come up with possible
reasons for their presence based on information derived from readings
and lecture.

Correlate landscape changes over time to the features seen in the core.

Present their interpretations to the class.

Assessment

Students demonstrate in their presentations an understanding of how
anthropogenic changes to landscapes can be represented in lake core
features over time.

Free and open to the public, this series will incorporate InTeGrate pedagogies into teaching practices, provide resources available for adoption, and create a forum for participants to learn and share teaching strategies.

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